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Definition(s) for: 酒逢知己千杯少

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
酒逢知己千杯少 jiǔ féng zhī jǐ qiān bēi shǎo - a thousand cups of wine is not too much when best friends meet (idiom)
- when you're with close friends, you can let your hair down

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 99,602 49,690

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
jiǔ- wine (esp. rice wine)
- liquor
- spirits
- alcoholic beverage
- CL:杯[bei1],瓶[ping2],罐[guan4],桶[tong3],缸[gang1]
féng- to meet by chance
- to come across
- (of a calendar event) to come along
- (of an event) to fall on (a particular day)
- to fawn upon
zhī- to know
- to be aware
- self
- oneself
- sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]
- sixth in order
- letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc
- hexa
qiān- thousand
qiān- used in 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1qian1]
bēi- cup
- trophy cup
- classifier for certain containers of liquids: glass, cup
bēi- variant of 杯[bei1]
bēi- variant of 杯[bei1]
- trophy cup
- classifier for certain containers of liquids: glass, cup
shǎo- few
- less
- to lack
- to be missing
- to stop (doing sth)
- seldom
shào- young

Other Words Containing 酒逢知己千杯少

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo